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the DeVosses, and also some of the many dollars behind the Riley Gaines Center.

And you can see on their tax form, Leadership Institute, $100,000 in 2023.

The main character, the star of the anti-trans athlete movement, this avatar for the MAGA Republican effort, you're saying that that person, Riley Gaines, happens to be funded by billionaire NBA owners.

The Riley Gaines Center definitely was.

And so as we put these tax forms right alongside her appearances on Fox News, it is important to remind ourselves that this shit worked.

Beyond even the whole, like, Simone Biles thing, which was abhorrent in terms of its false equivalence, I just remember the effectiveness, the normalization of

of this whole conversation.

Like there were the campaign ads, Madison, that I'm sure you remember in the middle of Major League Baseball playoff games that apparently helped turn the election in which they declared very proudly.

Kamala's agenda is they, them, not you.

I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message.

Kamala is for they, them.

President Trump is for you.

There is polling saying that these ads did shift voters.

And the NCAA, meanwhile, they did also ban trans women from women's sports.

This happened the day after Donald Trump signed that executive order in front of Riley Gaines wearing all white at the White House in the video we started this episode with.

Where he says, Trump has said it's a big reason that he won back the White House.

And then he credited Riley.

And by the way, just to keep up the accounting here, the U.S.

Olympic and Paralympic committees effectively did the same thing this summer because of Donald Trump riding this wave of popular momentum.

All of which is to say that as Coach Lars saw potential in Riley Gaines, right?